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Deborah S Reisinger, Lecturer, French, and Assistant Director of the French Language Program

Deborah S Reisinger
Contact Info:
Office Location:  06 Languages Building
Office Phone:  919-660-2420
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2012):

  • FRENCH 100S.01, CULTURAL/LITERARY PERSP Synopsis
    Gray 228, MWF 10:20 AM-11:20 AM
  • FRENCH 109S.01, BUSINES/CULT FRANCOPHONE WORLD Synopsis
    Perkins 2-088, MW 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
    (also cross-listed as ICS 182AS.01)
Office Hours:

Monday and Wednesday: 1-2 pm, and by appointment.
Education:

PhD in French Literature, Supporting Program in Cultural StudiesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2001
MA in French Literature,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1995
BA in French Literature; BA in East Asian Language and Cultures,University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS1992
Specialties:

French
Linguistics and Theories of Pedagogy
Film, Media and Visual Studies
Research Interests: Cultural studies, second language acquisition, computer assisted learning (CAL), business languages

Current projects: Contemporary French culture, Computer Assisted LanguageLearning, Business Languages

Areas of Interest:

Contemporary French culture
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Business Languages

Keywords:

Contemporary French culture • Computer Assisted Language Learning • Business Languages

Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. D.S. Reisinger, Crime and Media in Contemporary France, Comparative Cultural Studies (February, 2007), pp. 230, Purdue University Press
  2. D.S. Reisinger, Murder and Banality in the Contemporary fait divers, South Central Review, vol. 17 no. 4 (2000), pp. 84-99
  3. D.S. Reisinger, Samantha Earp, Joan Clifford, Effective Uses of a Course Management System, in Teaching with Technology, Heinle Professional Series in Language Instruction, edited by Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz, Lara Lomicka (Fall, 2003), Heinle
  4. D.S. Reisinger, Marketing to the World (November, 2008) [idea.html#nov08]
  5. Deb S. Reisinger, “Literary and Cinematic Responses to the Crime Story in Contemporary France.”, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture., vol. Vol 9 no. 4 (2007), pp. 1-10 [available here]
  6. D.S. Reisinger, Le Tour de France: sport et identité, Multimedia CD-ROM (Fall, 2005) [htm]
  7. D.S. Reisinger, de l'aide: Directory of Elementary Language Activities for Instructors at Duke (2003) [html]  [abs]
Conferences Organized

  • Abstract Reviewer for International CIBER Business Language Conference, November 2010  
  • Tri-Tech Foreign Language Technology Conference, Feb 2003, March 2004  
Deb Reisinger received her Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she specialized in Twentieth-century French and Francophone Literature and Cultural Studies. Her book, "Crime and Media in Contemporary France", was published by Purdue University Press (Spring 2007). Her current research focuses on contemporary culture studies, business languages, and the instructional technologies. Deb directs the Duke in Montréal program.

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